... towards the end of the eighteenth century. The architecture and visual images of the classical period differed greatly from the Baroque period and offered a more lightly coloured, graceful look with smoothly curving lines in the paintings and buildings. This new style was much more intimate and was given the name rococo. The great painters of the time of the time, ... The Classical period was a major turning pointing history and marked the beginning of many social and cultural revolutions. Unlike Renaissance music that took almost 150 years to change into Baroque music, Baroque music un...

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